Update Notes 8/29 (August Update)

ValkyrieA new NS vehicle is now available at standard aircraft terminals, the Valkyrie!

The Valkyrie is a six person aircraft used for close air support and transportation. It is crewed by a pilot and a forward gunner with room for four additional rumble seat passengers. These passengers sit in open seats on the side of the Valkyrie which allows them to use their personal equipment while in flight.

New Ribbons and Medals

Mentorship Ribbon - Awarded to players in a squad who are above BR 20. Awarded by being within 50m of a squadmate who is at or under BR 20 for every 200 squad bonus XP that squadmate earns.

Drill Sergeant Ribbon - Awarded to squad leaders. This ribbon is awarded every time a player under Battle Rank 20 gains a battle rank in the squad. Requires the squad leader to be within 300m of the player to receive the ribbon.

Squad Leadership Ribbon - Awarded to squad leaders. This ribbon is awarded for every 500 squad bonus XP generated by players in the squad. Requires the squad leader to be within 300m to receive credit towards the ribbon.

Platoon Leadership Ribbon - Awarded to Platoon leaders. This ribbon is awarded for every 3 squad leadership ribbons earned by other squad leaders in the platoon.

Platoon Conquest Ribbon - Awarded to Platoon Leaders. Ribbon is awarded for every 30 platoon members involved in a capture in the same region as the platoon leader. Partial credit is awarded, so platoons smaller than 30 can still receive the ribbon through more captures, and platoons larger than 30 can earn more credit towards the next ribbon. It requires at least 10 enemies to be present at the time of the capture in order to receive any credit.

Hossin Updates

The following Hossin bases are no longer under construction:

Edgewater Overlook

Last Hold

SRP Nanite Relay Station

Bridgewater Shipping Yard

The Offal Pit

Plus we fixed a ton of bugs.

Alerts

Removed Adversarial Alerts and reverted to the previous alert implementation:

Alerts trigger based on time

Alerts have a maximum duration of 2 hours

The empire with the most territory control at the end of the alert wins and locks the continent

Weapons / Balance

Increased harasser resistance to canister rounds from 69% to 76%

Canister reticule is now NC colored

Vulcan reticule now uses a red circle (shotgun style)

PPA projectiles can no longer shoot through gate shields

NC08 Mag-Scatter: Toned down recoil when firing in iron sights

Gauss Prime (NC assault rifle directive reward)

Improved hip cone of fire

Crouch reduced from 2.0 to 1.8

Crouch-walking and stand reduced from 2.5 to 2.4

Running hip COF unchanged. Remains at 3.0

Faster equip time, from 0.78 to 0.75 seconds

Recoil min/max angle changed from 23/25 to 17.25/18.75

Fixed semi-auto fire mode having higher recoil than full-auto

19A Fortuna (NC carbine directive reward)

Fixed muzzle velocity being faster in the semi-auto fire mode

NC6A GODSAW (NC LMG directive reward)

Removed Barrel Attachment

Horizontal recoil increased from 0.14875 to 0.175

Cone of fire bloom per shot reduced from 0.168/0.084 Hip-fire/Aimed to 0.14/0.07

We're looking into ways to help mitigate firing sway on the Valkyrie rumble seats.

PS4 codebase integration side effects:

There may be some new input issues (unable to map keys etc); we caught a lot of them but some may have slipped out

Visibility issues (objects not occluding properly); with our Umbra upgrade we may have some problems here where objects either occlude too much or not enough.

AnnouncementsThe PS2 team wants to thank the community for setting up the external bug tracking system (http://ps2issuetracker.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa). Our QA team has been referencing it extensively and multiple bugs have been logged that we didn't have tracked before. We appreciate the efforts to keep everyone up to date; thanks!